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We want to help you to discover how to cast metal in the back yard hobby foundry. A special place of your own. A place where you can - create - design - and convert your creative ideas into a solid metal reality. Follow the step by step pathway to success, and reap an enormous amount of personal reward and satisfaction, while producing things that you may never thought possible. MHF Members - Can Access Special Member Only Content Through The Sand Box Info Section Below
You may think that making timber patterns is time consuming, difficult, and perhaps not worth the effort, you may even prefer to use foam patterns. The lost foam casting technique certainly has it's place in the commercial and hobby foundry, but there are problems associated with lost foam. And if you are experiencing problems with lost foam, it could be due to not having a proper understanding of how traditional timber patterns are made, in fact, if you put the question to a skilled pattern maker i.e,"Shou